We are now standing on not normal land: nurses' competency in disaster management

Currently, the incidence of disasters is the biggest catastrophes that threaten people‟s livelihoods, health, and others welfare around the world. This situation provides the challenges for health care professionals, particularly nurses. As a result, there is a global need for all healthcare workers...

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Main Authors:	Aung, Khin Thandar, Ahayalimudin, Nurul ‘Ain, Abdul Rahman, Nurul 'Inayati
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Subjects:	RT Nursing
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spelling	iium-564952017-04-25T08:46:46Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/56495/ We are now standing on not normal land: nurses' competency in disaster management Aung, Khin Thandar Ahayalimudin, Nurul ‘Ain Abdul Rahman, Nurul 'Inayati RT Nursing Currently, the incidence of disasters is the biggest catastrophes that threaten people‟s livelihoods, health, and others welfare around the world. This situation provides the challenges for health care professionals, particularly nurses. As a result, there is a global need for all healthcare workers to be prepared and be competent in disaster management. The purpose of this paper is to describe how the roles of nurses in disaster management and how much competencies is needed. By searching the related data sources of CINAL plus, Google scholar and research gate, this paper will discusses the nurses' roles and experiences in disaster management, the reason why nurses need competencies in disaster management and how should we do to achieve the competencies of nurses in disaster management. When a disaster strikes, nurses are the ones who receive the most challenging tasks among the health care team because they are the first responders to be called upon. For that reason, the nurses should have positive characteristics and competencies to be an appropriate role model in disaster care. www.saspublisher.com 2017-03-31 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/56495/1/SJAMS-RIGS%201.pdf Aung, Khin Thandar and Ahayalimudin, Nurul ‘Ain and Abdul Rahman, Nurul 'Inayati (2017) We are now standing on not normal land: nurses' competency in disaster management. Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences (SJAMS), 5 (3E). pp. 1056-1060. ISSN 2347-954X E-ISSN 2320-6691 http:// www.saspublisher.com 10.21276/sjams.2017.5.3.64
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description	Currently, the incidence of disasters is the biggest catastrophes that threaten people‟s livelihoods, health, and others welfare around the world. This situation provides the challenges for health care professionals, particularly nurses. As a result, there is a global need for all healthcare workers to be prepared and be competent in disaster management. The purpose of this paper is to describe how the roles of nurses in disaster management and how much competencies is needed. By searching the related data sources of CINAL plus, Google scholar and research gate, this paper will discusses the nurses' roles and experiences in disaster management, the reason why nurses need competencies in disaster management and how should we do to achieve the competencies of nurses in disaster management. When a disaster strikes, nurses are the ones who receive the most challenging tasks among the health care team because they are the first responders to be called upon. For that reason, the nurses should have positive characteristics and competencies to be an appropriate role model in disaster care.
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author	Aung, Khin Thandar Ahayalimudin, Nurul ‘Ain Abdul Rahman, Nurul 'Inayati
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author_sort	Aung, Khin Thandar
title	We are now standing on not normal land: nurses' competency in disaster management
title_short	We are now standing on not normal land: nurses' competency in disaster management
title_full	We are now standing on not normal land: nurses' competency in disaster management
title_fullStr	We are now standing on not normal land: nurses' competency in disaster management
title_full_unstemmed	We are now standing on not normal land: nurses' competency in disaster management
title_sort	we are now standing on not normal land: nurses' competency in disaster management
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publishDate	2017
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We are now standing on not normal land: nurses' competency in disaster management

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